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REPORT - Who's top of the class in UK TV?
Teacher's pet or class clown? As the industry packs its bags for next week's Edinburgh TV festival, and with an eye on the autumn schedules, Broadcast gives three contrasting views of terrestrial performance over the past year.
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INTERVIEW - Let me entertain you
Ex-Planet 24 man Duncan Gray spent his first year as Granada's entertainment chief gathering a strong team around him. Now he's ready to reap the rewards, with a raft of shows about to hit the network's new schedule.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - No score draws?
Despite the assertions of media commentators that football is coming home, a closer look at the figures reveals remarkably little change in the number of people watching.
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OFF THE RECORD - Porn to the job
As if having to make Live TV's piss-poor soft porn wasn't bad enough, now long-suffering staffers have to watch it as well. Off The Record's moles at the cable channel reveal
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OFF THE RECORD - Airey fairy nonsense
And so to the rarefied atmosphere of the Royal Television Society, where OTR hears that next month Channel 5 director of programmes Dawn Airey (above right), is to 'reveal her most
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OFF THE RECORD - Elstein's brain
Still on the subject of Channel 5, OTR was as pleased as punch when its favourite movie, The Man With Two Brains, was screened last week. But just how does chief
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OFF THE RECORD - Priory knowledge
It's quite like old times at Ealing Studios - home of the Ealing comedies - these days. Could it be because Granada's latest hilarious comedy dramas, The Royle Family and Bob
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OFF THE RECORD - Tonight's news
It's been a good week for ITV's scoopmungous current affairs strand Tonight.First, the Independent Television Commission ruled that, despite 15 complaints, Tonight's Martin Bashir interview with the Stephen Lawrence suspects did
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OFF THE RECORD - Brahms and eclipsed
Anyone left underwhelmed by last week's cloud-ridden eclipse may be heartened to hear that darting off to the zone of totality was no guarantee of the full-corona effect either. Take GMG
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OFF THE RECORD - Subs on manoeuvres
Seasoned Edinburgh TV festival-goers will know the city is full of hazards at the end of August - and I'm not just talking about drunks in the George Bar. But this
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On Digital on the attack over Ryder Cup
On Digital has lodged complaints with the Independent Television Commission and the Office of Fair Trading over BSkyB's decision to withhold live coverage of next month's Ryder Cup golf event.The digital
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ITN 24-hour station gets the go-ahead
ITN is planning to launch its 24-hour TV news channel this year in a move that could see the service on air as early as November, according to sources.ITN is already
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Root brings Python back
The surviving members of Monty Python will be reunited for the first time since 1983 for a BBC 2 night of programmes to mark their 30th anniversary, writes Tim Dams.
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C4 sets up factual 'laboratory' with launch of Future TV strand
Channel 4 is to set aside part of its Friday night schedule for a£1.5 million 26 x 30-minute documentary strand that aims to rekindle some of the station's original experimental style, writes Steve Clarke.
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SNP spokesman for broadcasting Michael Russell said he found it 'incredible' the festival had ignored what he claimed was one of the most important issues, not just for Scottish broadcasting, but
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has launched a stinging attack on the Edinburgh International TV Festival for the absence of a session dedicated to the Scottish Six O'Clock News issue, writes Alice Macandrew.
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BAZAL DECORATES BBC 2 WITH CHANGING ROOMS SPIN-OFF
Independent Bazal is to produce a primetime Changing Rooms spin-off for BBC 2, Fantasy Rooms. The show, originally commissioned by former BBC 2 controller Mark Thompson, stars designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (left)
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NewsITV demands Duel
ITV has commissioned Ant and Dec indie Gallowgate to produce a quiz show based on a French format.
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THE PEOPLE'S VETS TO RETURN FOR A SECOND SERIES
Shearman Productions' observational documentary The People's Vets has been commissioned for a second series by ITV controller of documentaries and features Grant Mansfield. The 6 x 30-minute second run - which
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SKY ONE CONFIRMS AUSSIE WEEKEND FOR NOVEMBER
Sky One creative director Graham Burrells has commissioned a weekend of themed programming to celebrate the official opening of Fox Studios Australia on Sunday 7 November.The All Aussie Weekend will run
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CARLTON ORDERS FIRST CUT FROM TRINITY
Carlton TV has awarded Birmingham indie Trinity Picture Company its first order in the form of a 10-minute short for transmission as part of Carlton's First Cut series in October. Merely